| rdfs:comment | - The Shaman of the Whills traces its origins to the early drafts of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which George Lucas stated was a story told in the Journal of the Whills, a record of galactic knowledge. The Shaman of the Whills was first specifically mentioned in the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, in a now-deleted scene that featured the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn communing with Yoda. In the scene, which was never filmed, Jinn stated that eternal consciousness had been accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. A cut line from a later scene also had Yoda saying that the path to eternal consciousness was a secret of the "Ancient Order of the Whills."
- Shaman of the Whills was a religious title held by an individual in the Order of the Whills; the destined purpose of the person who served as Shaman of the Whills was to watch over the timeline of galactic history. There were at least three individuals who held the time, each at a different time, including former Jedi Knight and Bendu Knight Ussej Padric Bac; Bac became the Shaman of the Whills upon his mortal death on Kal'Shabbol, when he was reborn on Ashlan Four as the Shaman. He held the title until at least 4 ABY.
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| abstract | - Shaman of the Whills was a religious title held by an individual in the Order of the Whills; the destined purpose of the person who served as Shaman of the Whills was to watch over the timeline of galactic history. There were at least three individuals who held the time, each at a different time, including former Jedi Knight and Bendu Knight Ussej Padric Bac; Bac became the Shaman of the Whills upon his mortal death on Kal'Shabbol, when he was reborn on Ashlan Four as the Shaman. He held the title until at least 4 ABY. Individuals who served as the Shaman of the Whills watched over the timeline by observing the time stream, a body of water on Ashlan Four through which the timeline flowed; historians in the Order of the Whills used this to document the Journal of the Whills, which the Shaman was the keeper of. A shaman could step into the time stream and both observe and interaction in historical events, appearing wherever the shaman wanted to appear. Despite being able to observe historical events, the Shaman of the Whills was forbidden from influencing undesirable historical outcomes, though Bac did choose to intervene on certain occasions.
- The Shaman of the Whills traces its origins to the early drafts of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which George Lucas stated was a story told in the Journal of the Whills, a record of galactic knowledge. The Shaman of the Whills was first specifically mentioned in the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, in a now-deleted scene that featured the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn communing with Yoda. In the scene, which was never filmed, Jinn stated that eternal consciousness had been accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. A cut line from a later scene also had Yoda saying that the path to eternal consciousness was a secret of the "Ancient Order of the Whills." The final three episodes of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars—titled "Voices," "Destiny," and "Sacrifice"—expanded upon how Jinn learned the secret to eternal consciousness, and how he passed that knowledge onto Yoda. In the episode, Yoda learns about the secret from five Force Priestesses who had also trained Jinn, but no mention is made of a Shaman of the Whills. Despite this, the official Databank and the now-defunct Encyclopedia on StarWars.com still refer to Jinn as having learned from a Shaman of the Whills.
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